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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY METCALFE, BARRAR, CHRISTIANA, CLYMER, COX, CREIGHTON, EVERETT, GABLER, GEIST, HARRIS, KAUFFMAN, KNOWLES, MILLARD, MILLER, MUSTIO, PERRY, PYLE, ROCK, SWANGER, VULAKOVICH, REESE AND GROVE, MARCH 1, 2011 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 1, 2011 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Providing for the Commonwealth Citizenship Act. |
2 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
3 | hereby enacts as follows: |
4 | Section 1. Short title. |
5 | This act shall be known and may be cited as the Commonwealth |
6 | Citizenship Act. |
7 | Section 2. Citizenship. |
8 | (a) Criteria.--A person is a citizen of this Commonwealth |
9 | if: |
10 | (1) The person is born in the United States and subject |
11 | to the jurisdiction thereof. |
12 | (2) The person is a resident of this Commonwealth. |
13 | (b) Construction of terms.--For the purposes of this act, |
14 | "subject to the jurisdiction of the United States" has the |
15 | meaning that it bears in section 1 of the fourteenth amendment |
16 | to the Constitution of the United States, namely, that the |
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1 | person is a child of at least one parent who owes no allegiance |
2 | to any foreign sovereignty or a child without citizenship or |
3 | nationality in any foreign country. For the purposes of this |
4 | act, a person who owes no allegiance to any foreign sovereignty |
5 | is a United States citizen or national, or an immigrant accorded |
6 | the privilege of residing permanently in the United States or a |
7 | person without citizenship or nationality in any foreign |
8 | country. |
9 | (c) Additional criteria.--In addition to the criteria of |
10 | citizenship described under subsections (a) and (b), a person is |
11 | a citizen of this Commonwealth if: |
12 | (1) The person is naturalized in the United States. |
13 | (2) The person is a resident of this Commonwealth. |
14 | (d) Effect.--Citizenship of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
15 | shall not confer upon the holder thereof any right, privilege, |
16 | immunity or benefit under law. |
17 | Section 20. Effective date. |
18 | This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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